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Mostly personal essays, sometimes about reading and other pleasurable pursuits
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When All Else Fails (opens the original)
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Cue Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” (opens the original)
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News flash: holiday weekends can be the bane of an existence. Call it a blessing or a curse, for some people, there’s no spouse, no kids, no grands, no weekend house; and damn, if there’s not even a barbecue on the books. Downright depressing, that’s what it is. Even a soul beyond rich in extended family and friends, blessed with a myriad of well-developed interests may find itself in a momentary panic at the existential loneliness of an unencumbered holiday weekend.They can sneak up on you like
Calamity Club Fever...I've Got It (opens the original)
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My friend Laura urged me to read Kathryn Stockett’s new book The Calamity Club. Laura knows that Mississippi is one of my happy places, which is admittedly kind of weird for someone who grew up in Northern New Jersey and who lived most of her life in Manhattan, but it’s true, Mississippi, Claiborne County to be exact, holds a special place in my heart. I’ll jump at any opportunity to spend time there, and The Calamity Club is just one such way to immerse yourself into that world.Stockett’s novel
Summer Camp for Yogis (opens the original)
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This is all very strange. Very wonderful, I think. We arrived Featherpipe Ranch about an hour ago. Western Montana is the setting, a weeklong Iyengar yoga workshop the plot. The cast is twenty-nine students with master Iyengar teachers John Schumacher and Patria Walden co-starring. This is my first time at the ranch. It recalls the joys of summer camp, birch trees whispering in a cooling breeze, boats pulled ashore, magnetic leaders, dinner bell, a like-minded tribe. Unlike Girl Scout camp, the
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